Ho hum! The usual nonsense below. We get it with great frequency. Stock answer: It is mostly poor people who live near major roads and the poor have worse health generally. I could not see the paper in Barnett’s publication list at the time of writing so apparently has yet to undergo peer review. I [...]

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American Cannibalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism Cannibalism is a human practice in which the strong conquer and literally eat the bodies of the weak. For all the boasting of ‘American democracy’ it is obvious that precisely political cannibalism is the game being played. How many children are hungry? How many people are being driven from their homes? How [...]

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I have to admit that every time I see these silly commercials air, I get grumpy.  Saying Sugar Is Sugar is akin to saying Beef is Beef, Chocolate is Chocolate, or Mushrooms are Mushrooms. I for one know the difference between Kobe Beef and Safeway Beef, high quality European chocolate tastes far different from the [...]

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My recent posts about the Jewish religion questioned its antiquity. My submission was that modern-day Judaism and modern-day Christianity both arose at the same time as ways of adapting the ancient Hebrew religion to the destruction of the the Jerusalem temple by the Romans and the expulsion of most Israelites from Israel — with Judaism [...]

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